In the last post about my Portable Rotator for satellite use we got the basics working, we had a system where can send a command to set the Azimuth and Elevation by sending the following command: By sending those commands we can move the rotator to an Azimuth of 180 and Elevation of 57. This…
Category: RaspberryPI
Beginning of Portable Satellite Tracker
When Zane (ZS5ZT) contacted me and offered me a heavy duty pan/title mechanism I jumped at the offer. Turns out it is a nice little gadget and I’m surprised that not more people have turned these into portable trackers. I have created a page documenting my build and experiments with it. The first information is…
PlutoSDR on Network via Raspberry PI
I’ve been playing recently with the QO-100 high speed modem, its been working well, but one of the smaller issues I’ve been having is that every now and again I get bad packets. I’ve been tweaking all kinds of settings on my SDR Console as per the documentation and while I receive most packets it…
Offline Oscar 100 Wideband Spectrum Monitor with SDR
If you have been playing with DATV on the Oscar 100 satellite, then hopefully you know all about the online Wideband Spectrum Monitor provided by the BATC. Its bad form to transmit without keeping an eye on the spectrum because you could be transmitting over someone else. But what if your internet is down, or…
Oscar 100 Wideband Spectrum Clock
I needed a clock for the shack and it seemed fitting to put something fun together. Since I’ve been busy playing with DATV on the Oscar 100 Satellite, I figured a clock that would also show the wideband spectrum activity would fit nicely. The spectrum data for the clock comes from the BATC Wideband Spectrum…